In this paper I explore the meaning of empowerment in the teaching and learning of mathematics. The main part of the paper is devoted to distinguishing three different but complementary meanings of empowerment concerning mathematics: mathematical, social and epistemological empowerment. Mathematical empowerment concerns gaining the power to use mathematical knowledge and skills in school mathem...

Mathematics competitions, together with the people and organizations engaged with them, form an immense and vibrant global network today. This network has many roles. Competitions help identify students with higher abilities in mathematics. They motivate these students to develop their talents and to seek professional realization in science. Competitions have positive impact on education and on...

This paper suggests that consistently referring to variables as placeholders is an effective countermeasure for addressing a number of the difficulties students’ encounter in learning mathematics. The suggestion is supported by examples discussing ways in which variables are used to express unknown quantities, define functions and express other universal statements, and serve as generic element...

On-going design of Mathematics Education Markup Language (MeML) is presented. MeML is an XML-based language and the key component of Web-based Mathematics Education framework (WME) under investigation. MeML enables authoring of systematic and interoperable mathematics education pages that may contain active parts for various mathematics and educational purposes such as example generation, answe...

We present a research work about an innovative national teacher training program in France: the Pairform@nce program, designed to sustain ICT integration. The Pairform@nce trainings are grounded in a principle of collective lesson design by teams of trainees; they associate face-to-face and distant training. We study here a training for secondary school teachers, whose objective is to foster th...

aspects of arithmetic. Some topics treated as Arithmetic in Syllabus A, are, in Syllabus B, treated as part of the Mathematics curriculum. We now examine these changes, one by one. F: Since the Thirties the use of statistical methode of analysis and representation, in industry, commerce and the social and natural sciences had been growing rapidly. By the early fifties statistical representation...

is the constant of the times. No doubt each generation has felt that its generation was changing more rapidly than any previous one and that a slow-down, a period of consolidation, was just over the next rise for the more fortunate descendants. Mathematics education has experienced a period of change. There is every possibility that these changes will continue and ac celerate. In the following ...

this study historically analyzes the scientific output of mathematics to describe its structure, notions and scientific origin using the historiographical method. the research data consisted of scientific outputs of mathematics in isi database, science citation index (sci) and social science citation index (ssci) during 8 years (1990 to 2007). the data collection tool was the search engine and ...